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Bought a new pack of a hair product which now uses 6% less natural ingredients and is no longer vegan (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by Blizzard to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nah, most enbys are chill and recognize that pronouns can be easy to forget. You're just upset that people get annoyed when you repeatedly misgender them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had firsthand experience when an enby stayed at our place for a while. My old Gen X self had trouble remembering to use the correct pronouns sometimes, but it got easier with practice. Decades of using only binary pronouns for individuals takes time to unlearn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'll be honest, it took me a while to start remembering "they/them", even for myself. However, now I have the opposite problem, which is that I tend to substitute "they/them" for gendered pronouns. Normally that's not a problem because most people accept neutral pronouns, but some people can be very picky about their pronouns and then I have to remember that "they/them" can't be universally applied to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Agreed, all the NBs I know are chill.

Their "allies", not so much.